GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104 SLI
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
January 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1556 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
-
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
14400 Million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
-
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
10000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
VR Ready
+
-